Two coins add up to 30 cents, and one of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
Hint: Only one of them isn't a nickel.
Answer
A quarter and a nickel
The quarter is the one that isn't a nickel. The other coin is.
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Your flight leaves at 8:00. You reach the gate at 7:55, the flight isn't delayed, and yet you still have to wait over 12 hours. Why?
Hint: Look at your boarding pass closely.
Answer
Your flight is at 8:00 p.m. and you arrived at 7:55 a.m.
8:00 can mean morning or evening, and you showed up 12 hours early.
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Which word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?
Hint: The answer is in the question.
Answer
Short
Add "er" to "short" and you get "shorter."
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A red house is made of red bricks and a blue house is made of blue bricks. What is a greenhouse made of?
Hint: Plants need sunlight.
Answer
Glass
A greenhouse is a glass building for growing plants.
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You walk into a dark cabin with one match. There's a candle, an oil lamp and a fireplace. What do you light first?
Hint: You can't light anything without it.
Answer
The match
You have to light the match before you can light anything else.
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Tom's mom has three children. The first two are named Penny and Nickel. What's the third child's name?
Hint: Read the first two words again.
Answer
Tom
The riddle starts with "Tom's mom," so her third child is Tom, not Dime.
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Break me and you'll end up with more pieces of me, but I'm worth exactly the same. What am I?
Hint: Ask the cashier for change.
Answer
A twenty-dollar bill
Breaking a $20 gives you smaller bills and coins that still add up to $20.
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Nobody ever sharpens me, yet I get sharper the more you use me. What am I?
Hint: You're using it right now.
Answer
Your mind
Using your brain (like solving riddles) keeps it sharp.
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Everyone gets me free when they're born, I become more precious every year, and no amount of money can buy more of me. What am I?
Answer
Time
Everyone starts life with time, it feels more valuable as you age, and you can't buy more.
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I have no beginning, no middle and no end, yet I can be as small as a ring or as big as the equator. What am I?
Hint: Draw me without lifting your pencil.
Answer
A circle
A circle is one continuous line with no start or finish, at any size.
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The more people I'm shared with, the less I'm worth. What am I?
Answer
A secret
A secret loses its value the more people know it.
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You can make me, keep me and break me, but you can never touch me. What am I?
Answer
A promise
You make and keep promises, and you can break them, but a promise isn't a physical thing.
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